Fair Pay to Play Act (Why College Athletes Should not be Paid).

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GAME ON! TO ALL COLLEGE ATHLETES

WHYCOLLEGE ATHLETES SHOULD NOT BE PAID NCAA

KYNZEE COBB

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OPINIONS FROM A FORMER COLLEGE ATHLETE

TIM TEBOW. HE HAS A STRONG PASSION FOR COLLEGE SPORTS, AS A TWO-TIME NATIONAL CHAMPION AND HEISMAN WINNER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, HE OFTEN FONDLY LOOKS BACK ON HIS TIME AS A COLLEGE ATHLETE.

"I FEEL LIKE I HAVE A LITTLE CREDIBILITY AND KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THIS," TEBOW BEGINS DURING A FRIDAY INTERVIEW ON ESPN'S "FIRST TAKE." TEBOW ALSO SAYS "BECAUSE WHEN I WAS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, I THINK MY JERSEY WAS ONE OF THE TOP JERSEYS AROUND THE WORLD ... AND I DIDN'T MAKE A DOLLAR FROM IT, BUT NOR DID I WANT TO. BECAUSE I KNEW, GOING INTO COLLEGE, WHAT IT WAS ALL ABOUT." (TEBOW P6) TIM TEBOW SEES THE OTHER SIDE. HE BELIEVES THAT PAYING COLLEGE ATHLETES IS NOT A GOOD IDEA. BEING A COLLEGE ATHLETE ISN'T ABOUT THE MONEY IT'S ABOUT YOUR EDUCATION AND MEMORIES YOU MAKE AND GOING TO COLLEGE FOR YOUR FAMILY. COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS ABOUT A TEAM WORKING TOWARDS UNIFIED GOALS. HE SAYS HE REALIZES WE LIVE IN A SELFISH CULTURE, BUT IT'S HIS UNIVERSITY AND WHERE HE IS AN ALUMNI AND IF WE START PAYING THESE ATHLETES IT WONT MAKE COLLEGE SPORTS SPECIAL ANYMORE AND THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT.

COLLEGE ATHLETS ALREADY GET PAID As athletes, they are not held to the same standard as other students. The biggest universities give the athletes the best gyms to workout in, free health insurance for injuries, transportation, food, equipment and most importantly free tuition.

That in itself is a payment for three to four years. Would college athletes rather not be provided with such great services and be paid a salary? I think not.

IT IS NOT WHAT

C O L L E G E IS ABOUT

College athletes are not professionals and therefore should not be paid.

The purpose of going to college is to get the training so you can use it later.

Athletes play at the college level and they further use that experience at the professional level where they will be paid. Just like everybody else.

THE NCAA MISSION STATEMENT Our purpose is to govern competition in a fair, safe, equitable and sportsmanlike manner, and to integrate intercollegiate athletics into higher education so that the educational experience of the student-athlete is paramount

HOW WILL PAYING ATHLETES BE FAIR TO EVERYONE? Honestly it won't be fair If the football team gets paid, why not the tennis team or the volleyball team? They're athletes too, right? What about the golf players? They're all there on athletic scholarship.

How about the chess team, as well? And who could forget about the rowing team? And female athletes?

With the fair pay to play act female and male athletes wont be paid equally.

Other sports wont be as important as football even though your schools other sports could be better than the football team. women's sports aren't recognized as male sports. meaning the female teams most likely wont get paid.

In conclusion paying college athletes would be very unfair to any other athletes that don't play football.

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C A R T O O N S

"FAIR PAY TO PLAY ACT" Mackynzee Cobb English 1302-002 Ms. Das 24 April 2020 Editorial, Dallas Morning News. “Texas Will Benefit from California's Move to Upend NCAA Rules on Paying Student Athletes.” Dallas News, Dallas News, 3 Oct. 2019, www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2019/10/03/texaswill-benefit-californias-move-upend-ncaa-rules-payingstudent-athletes/.

Setty, Ganesh. “College Athletes Are One Step Closer to Getting Paid.” CNBC, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2019, www.cnbc.com/2019/10/28/college-athletes-are-one-stepcloser-to-getting-paid.html.